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Ni no Kuni brings Studio Ghibli's eye candy to PS3RPGs rarely fare well when it comes to demos. This is a genre where mechanics, character and plot development can and will take their sweet time, building momentum and relevance over the course of dozens of hours. The idea that a 10 minute morsel can somehow be representative of the full experience... well, it's frankly preposterous.After its first showing at Namco's Global Gamers Day, Ni no Kuni is no exception to this rule. But by golly, it looks gorgeous.Perhaps we should expect nothing less from Studio Ghibli's first sortie into games development, working in conjunction with Level 5, but even so, the cel-shaded cast are strikingly beautiful. Even when you're simply traversing the overworld there's an abundance of charm: anime monsters patrol the landscape, and if you get too near a Metal Gear-style exclamation mark appears over their heads, at which point they give chase with angry-but-cute little faces. Elsewhere, a sailboat bobs lazily in a small bay, flanked by rocky outcrops. Climb aboard and you can set out to sea, cutting through the rippling waves.
Take an animation studio beloved the world over, and pair them up with what just might be Japan's fastest growing game maker and publisher -- it sounds perfect. Level-5 (Professor Layton, Dragon Quest IX) teamed up with Studio Ghibli (Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away) to create two RPGs (same name, but different platforms) that feature Pokemon like monster catching mechanics. It's called Ni no Kuni and it sounds like an amazing game. Last year's Ni no Kuni: The Another World failed to set the world on fire after its release in Japan despite its impressive pedigree. Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch is a part follow-up, part remake for the PS3, and it sounds amazing, but the reality doesn't quite live up to expectations. If Ni no Kuni seems so amazing on paper, why am I so bored when I actually sit down to play the game? I've put around four hours into the Japanese version, and despite an amazing art style, wonderful voice acting, and the game featuring a charming cast of characters that really would be at home in a film by Hayao Miyazaki (Ghibli's most famed director), the moment to moment gameplay of the game is dreadfully dull.
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Video Games: Ni No Kuni: Wrath Of The White Witch (PlayStation 3) | $59.99 | See it |
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